The weather today looks like it is following yesterday's pattern. It is quite dull this morning, but bother forecasters (Met Office and BBC) that this afternoon will be gloriously sunny. Both agree that all that sunshine won't bring the air temperature up any higher than 18° C, and that only for maybe a single hour. 17° C would seem to be more representative for the afternoon. Tomorrow could be sunnier than today, and maybe the temperature will peak at 21° C.

  Yesterday was a good day on many levels. The first good thing was that the constipation that was bothering me, despite no discomfort, for a couple of days, came to an end yesterday morning, and did it with no drama at all. That made me confident that I could go out, although only a short distance because there was still a possibility of visits to the toilet to come - which didn't happen.

  I had wanted to get some shopping from Tesco for a day or two, and finally went out to get my shopping late yesterday morning. I was originally going to only buy very low sugar, healthy sort of things, but it seemed my guts were rumbling with hunger by 11am. Maybe I also wanted to celebrate my constipation finishing as well. Plus there was the temptations of some reduced price stickers. I bought two naughty "Deli meat subs", and a Southern fried chicken wrap. They were nice, but of course I regret it this morning.

  Maybe another thing I regret was buying the cheese coleslaw. I had intended to have a scoop or two with my dinner, but I ended up eating the whole lot. That was possibly another thing I regretted this morning.  There was one other I bought that maybe was not a good idea. It was a bottle of French salad dressing. I think the second or third ingredient was sugar. I thought it might be safe in small quantities, but of course I used far too much !

  The afternoon was a beer tasting session with Michael and Jodie. I had some regrets there too, but not about what I was eating or drinking. It was because I have loaned Michael one of my older mobile phones with a Smarty Sim card in it. I tried to talk him through setting it up himself at home, but I think the booze was making me feel far too optimistic. In the cold light of day I know he will be too scared to do it by himself. At the moment he has a very expensive account with EE who are charging him the same as when he was effectively buying a phone from them, and several years later, after the phone was long paid for, the price didn't drop, and on top of that I think his price plan only allows 500MB of data ! He could be paying as little as £6 per month for double the data allowance.

  At the end of the drinking session I didn't feel as drunk as usual, but I did notice some typing I was doing a bit later needed a lot of backspacing and trying again ! It also made me a blasé about my dinner. The original plan was just a pile of mixed salad leaves and some corned beef. It needed some dressing, and I think I used far too much, high sugar, French Dressing. I also tossed in a little pack of diced cheese with garlic and olives. Finally I used a small tub of cheese coleslaw as a side dish, and ended up scoffing the lot.

  I watched the usual Star Treks, and then with nothing else worth watching on TV I turned it off, and did other stuff. Some of that other stuff was planning what I might do today. It was my intention to see just three bands playing short sets at the BrockleyMax festival. First I double checked where they would be playing. On my first attempt, earlier yesterday, I got the wrong place, but last night I found the right place on the map. It will be happening on what I think is a pedestrianised area between Brockley railway station, and The Brockley Barge - a Wetherspoons pub.

  The Brockley Max festival goes on for just over a week, but as far as I cans see there are only a few bands playing on a live stage, and only today. Those bands are:
5.00pm  - Bring The Angels - https://hotvox.co.uk/artist/bring-the-angels/
6.00pm - The Artiston - https://hotvox.co.uk/artist/the-artiston/
6.30pm - Alex And The Wonderland - https://hotvox.co.uk/artist/alex-and-the-wonderland/
I think there was a band listed for 5.30pm, but I think they may have had rap influences or something. It could be a good time for a swift half in the pub !

  I was in bed reading by 9pm, and probably asleep by 10pm. In one respect I slept well. I seemed to mostly sleep in 3 hour chunks, but I did seem to have some long (20 to 30 minutes) of insomnia between them.....or did I ? I know that stuff I had been reading had intrigued me, and it either popped up in a dream, or maybe I was thinking about it while I was awake between sleeps. My memory of it does have a slightly dream like quality so maybe I was half awake and half asleep....or something.

  What I had been reading was SciFi based on an imagined extrapolation of experiments both the USA and Russians were doing during the cold war, and it involved training dolphins to attach bombs to boats, and to rescue drowning soldiers. The first leap from reality was that the Russians had managed to make the dolphins, and several other marine species to talk (albeit in their own language). The story reveals they always could talk, but like cats are known to understand anything a human say, but refuse to acknowledge it, the dolphins initially refused to talk to humans.

  One of the things that I was curious about is whether the author had actually learned anything about dolphin behaviour, or if he was just making some of it up. For instance there is a passage in the book where a dolphin is in a special space suit for some activities in deep space. He laments that the human designers of the space suit had left no space for the dolphins erection (they are mammals, and have penises, or so I believe). The dolphin was bored and let his mind wander to erotic thoughts, and so had an erection that in the confined space was very uncomfortable. What's more is that even if unencumbered, it had no hands to do anything with it, and in normal life dolphins would (apparently) rub their penis on some suitable surface as a form of masturbation. Somehow this amused the schoolboy in me !

  I got up at 6.30am this morning. It felt earlier than desired, but it also seemed like I would never get back to sleep again. One of the first things I did was to go to the toilet for the first pee of the day, and sometime I would also have a poo. This morning I most emphatically had a poo ! I reckon it was more catchup from my couple of days of constipation. It, and a smaller amount half an hour later, didn't seem to be matched with how much I had eaten yesterday.

  On the other hand, I had eaten more of stuff not good for me. My blood glucose reading was a very high 9.5mmol/l. I have already theorised the reasons for it, although there is also the possibility that one of the beers I had yesterday may have had a lot of sugar in it, but I can't seem to think which beer it might have been - if indeed it was any beer.

  My plans for today were ever so simple, and it could have been an enjoyable day. Maybe it still might be. The first thing I will probably do after shampooing and showering, is to go to Aldi for some shopping. I particularly want to get some toilet paper in my belief that Aldi's is cheaper for what is probably identical to what Tesco sell with a different outer wrapper. I also want some cheap Aldi own brand laundry detergent. There is no immediate need for these things, but this morning, provided I am ready in time, would be a convenient time.

  My plans to go to the Brockley Max festival are now in disarray since checking on the delivery of a small parcel from Amazon. It is to be delivered today, and experience suggests it will arrive right in the middle of the time I would be in Brockley, and so I am not moving from here until the parcel arrives - and it could be as late as 9pm (but hopefully a better estimate will appear on their tracking page once it has left the Dartford depot).